I heard a report yesterday that a lot of the fruits and vegetables will be lost over this extreme cold weather for Florida. Get ready for higher prices for both even if you can find certain ones at all. Maybe you should stock up today for some of the next coming months needs, reckon?I don’t think California or Arizona has suffered from the cold so maybe they will have plenty. They have good fruits and veggies as well. But back to Florida for a second, do they allow ice fishing in Florida?…. Well, I was just wondering……Pete

Did you see the comment under the Tommy Tuberville post. Don sent me some info that I was not aware of. Still, I think Tuberville will be a good hire for Texas Tech…..New Mexico dropped out of the top 25 and I think that is good. We have a pretty good young team. No.2 son pointed out that if you watch some of the great teams of today on TV, watch them work the ball around the court and in the paint, and compare them to the Lobos, the Lobos still have a ways to go. Still, they are young and they hussle, but when they are missing the three’s, it can get ugly. We need help under the basket…..Arizona is going to beat New Orleans. They are hot….Dallas is going to beat Minnesota. They are hot…I hope Pete Carroll does not hire Walker away from New Mexico State. We need a coach that will stay put and recruit some good players. I wish we could afford Mike Leach. Yeah, I know he is under the gun for mishandling players or at least a player and that is not good, but the boy is a good coach. We all agree to that. Coach Leach, would you come over to NMSU for a few hundred thousands? You know that NMSU is getting 300,000 to 500,000 because Boise State played in the BCS game. That’s pretty good, ain’t it?  And you could take some of these old raw, young, high school New Mexico quarterbacks and make some real hero’s out of them. Well, at least think about it, Coach, ok? Let us know…..

Did you folks see the article about Waste Management burying waste and producing methane gas from it, out in California I think,  to the tune of 13,000 gallons per day at one location. I believe that powers about 500 vehicles from that NGL produced from that plant. That’s pretty good. I did not read the article well enough to report on it in great detail, but it is a dang good idea. I hope other waste burial site’s will consider building such. Also, money has been made available for an algae fuel production plant is Southern New Mexico from the brine and brackish water they have available down there. This is to power diesel engines, as I understand it. They say it is much better than using corn as a source and I think we can all agree to that. Corn is too valuable as a food source. Brackish, brine water is a great idea for producing fuel. Let’s hope it pans out. If I see another article on either plants I will pass on a little better post. Pete Hester

Texas Tech Red Raiders are hiring Tommy Tuberville to replace Leach. Tuberville was with Auburn until 2008 and he is a good’un. He was 84 – 40 at Auburn in 10 years and had one 13 – 0 season. He is a good hire…And he was trying to put in the spread formation down at Auburn when he left…Now he’s got one, ready to go.  I enjoyed the high-speed, high-scoring offense of Mike Leach. I hope Coach Tuberville can keep that going. Only thing, I don’t know if those good pass happy quarterback just came to Coach Leach or if he took an average quarterback and made him a good, pass happy quarterback….We will see, huh? None the less, Coach Tuberville is a good coach and I think the Lubbock community will make him welcome….Pete

Man, oh man, did  the Runnin’ Rebels lay it on us yesterday. They had a reserve player, #2 by the name of  Wallace who hit 7 of 10 three’s. You would figure that by the third or fourth three they would have put someone on him, huh? Reckon why that kid ain’t on the first team?… But it was a good game. The Pit,… what an atmosphere. You have not heard loud ’til you visit the pit. Wow. And they are loudest when they are coming down on the Ref for a bad call. I won’t say the ref was intimidated by it, but I will say that if I was the Ref I would have been.

No.17 Wisconsin whaps No. 4 Purdue, 73 to 64. Coach Bo Ryan is 130 – 10 at home in nine seasons. No. 3 son and No. 3 daughter in law are big time Badger fans. I think Purdue was 14 – 0 coming into that game. I believe I got a couple of happy kids this morning in Madison.

No. 2 Texas 103, Colorado 86…Are the Longhorn awesome, or what….

As a kid, when I wasn’t pulling for Bama, I was pulling for Mississippi State. I lived half-way between Tuscaloosa and Starksville, so it was easy for me to pull for both until they played each other, then, of course I was a Bama fan. But when state played anyone else I pulled for them. Did you see where Miss St beat No. 14 Mississippi, 80 – 75, in Oxford, by the way….Go Bulldogs.

Jan. 10, 2010, Albuquerque Journal, James Yodice reported this morning that Coach Smith from Cleveland High School had his Varsity, JV and Freshman team enroute to Santa Fe and he called ahead to a Subway shop and ordered for all 44 players. When the team arrived there was one young lady behind the counter and she was way behind. Coach Smith asked her if she could use some help and of course she agreed. Coach Smith got behind the counter, put on the rubber gloves and started making sandwiches….What a nice story and what a guy, huh?..Way to go coach…That may be the best lesson you have ever taught those boys…You’re great….

Say, how do you guys feel about traffic circles? I know I have made more than one trip around some of them, but I heard today that a traffic circle can handle a lot more cars than a four way stop…..Is that right?…Say you need to take a street to your immediate left at the circle, so you go 3/4 of the way around the traffic circle to make what would have been a left turn at a 4 way, right?  And circulating traffic has the right of way? No, entering traffic has the right of way?? Well, I surely don’t know who has the right of way, but I do know they are easier to get on than they are to get off, based on passed experience. Seems like it may be ok for a slow paced, laid back neighborhood, but a busy town? I don’t know about that… Texas has a bunch of them so some of you folks can sound off on these things if you will. Helping traffic along is good, so if a traffic circle will keep it moving,, then  maybe it is the way to go…What do you think? Four ways are ok until you tie, then it is confusion for some, for others a tie is their time to go.

I was reading this morning that when the Whooping Cranes were near extinction, someone had the idea to place the eggs of the whooping crane with the Sandhill Crane to be used as foster parents. And they did..It worked, except for when the Whooper grew up it did not recognize it’s own kind and wanted to mate with the Sandhill…which did not work…So, like the cranes,  I guess we are what we think we are, whether we are or not…

Today’s,  Jan. 6, 2010,  Albuquerque Journal, Young Galaxies Captured by Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer says, “The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe- just 600 million years after the big bang, when the universe was just a toddler.” Well, he goes on to say a lot more, but scientists have to have a pretty good calculator, don’t they..Where is year one, can they see that? “In the beginning God created heaven and earth”…. My little pea brain does not compute such matters, numbers that big….But they, the scientist or astronomers could only see about 900 million years, before Hubble was repaired after the big bang and that the repaired Hubble has been key in helping determine the age of the universe at about 13.7 billion years, thus ending a long scientific debate…Huh? The heck of it is, how can one argue with them, if one was so inclined…These guys can spout off all kind of data supporting these theories… I wonder, do any of those guys support Genesis account of earth’s and heaven’s creation? I don’t think it states how it was done in the Bible, just that God created…I can’t argue with them except to say God made the Heavens and Earth, I just don’t know when, but if it was 13.7 billion years ago, God is old, ain’t he?….

If you have read my bio, you know I used to sing in a Gospel Quartet. We had one song that had these lines, “Soon we will come to the end of life’s journey, and perhaps we’ll never meet anymore, ‘Till we gather in Heaven’s bright city, far away on that beautiful shore….” It is a beautiful song, but more than that the words should fill you with joy, especially if you are a believer…You think about how short one’s life really is and then think about how long eternity really is…We spent the first twenty or twenty-five years of this short life preparing for the next fifty or sixty years and many times we spend no time or study getting ready for the eternal journey that we know to be coming…You will remember that I started 2009 reading the Bible cover to cover…I’m still not through, but I am in Revelations…Always before I had read the bible with how it dealt with me and this life and what I should or shouldn’t be doing and that is still important, of course, but this time through it has been about me and the next life, eternity if you will…It has given me a different out look in my reading…It has to do with age, no doubt, but I kind of wish I could have read it years ago with the same purpose or feeling as I get in today’s reading…I hope you will give thought to the hereafter and remember it is real…The strongest believer in Christ is Satan…Satan  knows Christ is real… Satan knows Christ wins..You need to think about life’s journey..Christ said he would come back soon when he left us 2010 or so years ago and to Christ a thousand years is “but a day” …so two days have passed in Christ’s time table….The song also has these words, “where the charming roses bloom forever, and where separation come no more”….I give thought to this today realizing that my journey’s end draws to a close, and I still may have several good years left, but what better time than today for me or you to prepare for the next life’s journey…Pete

If  We Never Meet Again, by Albert E. Brumley, copyright, 1945 by The Stamps Quartet Music Co., in “Devine Praise”

The Cousins books are where I started trying to write. I was recovering from by-pass surgery, and  since I had always wanted to write ,  I felt like if I did not do some writing pretty quick that I may not have any time left to do anything. So, I did try it and admittly I am not a good writer, just a wanna be writer, but these books are what they are…just stories that I have tried to tell about my teen years. You can catch a few of my chapters of Cousins, the first book, in the down loads. Read Big Momma, which is pretty dang close to the truth. I loved her very much as did all of us Cousins. I want to re-publish the original cousins picture made around 1946 or so back in Alabama and published very early in my posts at this site. All but three of  cousins are still alive, so here we are again for your viewing pleasure…good looking bunch, huh?